a.The act of opposing or resisting. b.The condition of being in conflict; antagonism:"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself"(Virginia Woolf). 2.Placement opposite to or in contrast with another. ...
1.on or related to the side of the body which in most people has the more skilful hand, or to the side of a person or thing which is toward the east when that person or thing is facing north (opposite toleft).When I'm writing, I hold my pen in my right hand.derecho ...
He went in an opposite one, to a dreary, strange, flat scene, where boughs dripped, and coughs and consumption lurked, and where he had never been before. "Sue's gone from me—gone!" he murmured miserably. She in the meantime had left by the train, and reached Alfredston ...
Simultaneously, his Neuralink firm works to hook the human brain to the DARPA-net for the coming “Internet of everything”, which includes you. Another Musk tentacle tunnels under cities like Los Angeles & Chicago under the guise of building high-speed rail, though to many it looks more lik...
Nostalgia has been viewed as the conceptual opposite of progress, against which it is negatively viewed as reactionary, sentimental or melancholic. It has been seen as a defeatist retreat from the present, and evidence of loss of faith in the future. Nostalgia is certainly a response to the ...
any relatively stable set ofPOLITICAL ATTITUDESin support of thestatus quo,i.e. policies which seek to sustain or renovate rather than reconstruct the social fabric. As such, conservatism is the opposite of radicalism. support for the British Conservative Party. Conservative political ideology, in ...
2) Example: ‘Comfort’s catholicity of perception and image, strangely Whitmanesque in range, almost the exact opposite in aesthetic compulsion, continues to evoke that trembling atmospheric accumulative hinting at a cruel, an inexorably serene timelessness… Wrey Gardiner scores by aiming at simple...
We know that the Fed is set to taper their bond purchases dead ahead. I personally believe that once they start, there will be no re-firing up the printing presses regardless of economic outcomes. Reactionary financial market outcomes may be another story, but even then I believe the Fed wa...
of reactionary rulings onvotingrights,gerrymandering,unionorganizing, thedeath penalty,environmental protection,guncontrol,abortion,campaign finance, and the use ofdark moneyin politics. Before the court’s current term concludes at the end of June, it likely will wreak more havoc in a series of ...
Noun1.reaction formation- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them; "his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive" ...